But specifically, how does one return to God?

 What makes explaining the way back to God difficult is that we human beings do not realize that we exist in an Illusion we [using our physical senses] cannot see, taste, touch,  nor think about using the brain... and thus, the whole of Reality is INVISIBLE to us.  It is like we are in a closed place, and everywhere we look, all we see is the reflection of ourselves in everything we can observe using our physical senses. And should any of us happen to come  across an advanced Mystic, or Saint, what could he or she possibly say that would be of help to us in discovering that which does not exist on this physical plane?

 

So, my question is this:   How does one explain that which does not exist on the physical plane of existence?  And your answer might be... (if you were an Enlightened Soul) ... to say that I must "go within" myself by means of special meditation to awaken a level of Consciousness that exists "within" me,  in a realm of Energy that is INVISIBLE to my physical senses, and in time I would begin to slowly become aware that I was "somehow" awakening to bits of understanding that.... somehow provided me with a form of Knowledge that I knew was the Truth... and yet,  I was unable to communicate this bit of Knowledge to anyone outside of myself... even though what I had come to suddenly KNOW was clearly the Truth.  NSgy = Neutral Spiritual Energy.

What I just wrote above is what makes dealing with Spirituality so difficult.  That which is of Spirituality is Permanent, as is TRUTH.  But to our physical senses, TRUTH is invisible.  Truth, in other words, does not exist in the Illusion of Creation.  In the  Creation we find only the abstract term Truth... which stands for a TRUTH we can experience only when one's Attention is focused in the Realm of Spirituality [in a higher level of Consciousness]. 

One's Soul does indeed exist, but it ONLY exists as Pure Spiritual Energy... which is not to be found in the physical Creation.  "Within" oneself is a MIND realm, and one's Spiritual realm, and both are invisible to one's brain.  Again my sketch:

We cannot easily accept the fact that we have a Soul but that it is invisible to the brain and one's physical senses.  We are trained from early childhood to "trust" the brain and its thinking.  So, it never occurs to us that the brain cannot perceive anything other than the physical  dimension.  No wonder our search for God is difficult.  We insist on expecting an intellectual path back Home.

More on this in my next blog... 1 Brother James